Islamic morality is trash and this is why

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The key to understand the cause of the inferior quality of morality from Islam requires understanding the Euthyphro dilemma.

The fundamental problem presented to theists including muslim is:

Are morally good acts willed by God because they are morally good, or are they morally good because they are willed by God?

In other words is something morally good in itself or is it morally good simply because "God" says so?


Scenario 1: Because God said so

The first scenario perfectly fits with islamic morality, that which is commanded by the Creator and superior being must be enforced otherwise we risk punishments and loose rewards in the hereafter.

It is a morality that cares first and foremost to appease this entity known as Allah, and less interested in the cohesive nature of those commands with a greater morality.

It has two main flaws, firstly the lack of evidence for a deity that is omnipotent, omniscience and personal, let alone evidence for the islamic deity, secondly the morality of this deity becomes arbitrary based on the personal whims of this imagined deity alone.

A morality based on a set of unproven stipulations is intellectual untenable and therefore the theist must resort to scenario 2.

Scenario 2: The morality of islam is morally good in of itself
Here the problem becomes to define morally good and then to measure morally good to teachings of islam.

In general all morality claims to reduce suffering and increase well-being and most claim to conform to rationality and therefore these are the three pillars by which we shall measure islam.

Sex-slavery:
Sex-slavery runs afoul of our morally good as it increases suffering for the woman who is now sexual property, and it therefore does not meet our three-pronged test.

Punishment for homosexuality:

This punishments has neither any rational basis as consensual and safe relations cause no harm neither does it contribute to increasing well-being and nor does it reduce suffering and thus it fails all three pillars.

Punishments for apostasy:

Apostasy laws can only be upheld with unwavering belief in God, and as rational people who demand extraordinary proof for this extraordinary claim such a stipulation must be rejected and the laws cause suffering and does not increase well-being and therefore also fail to meet the three pillars.





A morality that only makes sense if I agree with your superstition is poor basis for moral, don't you think? @VixR @Defendant @AussieHustler @Reiko @Knowles @Saabriin Omar :sass2:
 

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It is not disrespect, I don't view LGBT as lesser people nor do i adopt century old morality to condemn us.

LGBT flag represent human dignity and the Somali flag represent Somalis, the two should be not be mutually exclusive.
Somalia is a Muslim county therefore you should respect the Somali people's religion .
 
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